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Last year the importations of wild |
animals into the United States were
valued at $121,039, of which $23,519 |
was for scientific and educational pur
poses, and paid no duty, $19,580 in du
ties being collected on the rest, which
were imported by circuses and private
menageries. In 1903 the wild beasts
imported were valued at $117,514.
The courage and valor for which the :
Japanese are famous is instilled into j
them from their earliest infancy, says ;
n Japanese writer. When a baby cries
his mother scolds him, and says: 1
"What a coward to cry for a trifling
pain; what will you do when your arm j
is cut off in battle? What when you
are called upon to commit hara-kiri?"
Aided by wings the ostrich is the
fastest runner, sometimes making 98
feet a second. In measured flights the
Virginia rainpiper has a record of
7 500 yards a minute and the Euro
pean swallow has exceeded 8,000
yards. The slowest creatures are
snails and certain small beetles, a
healthy snail's highest speed being
Jive and one-half inches an hour.
Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cot
ton gin, got the germ of his great idea
from seeing, through the interstices of
a hut, an old Negro work a handsaw
among the freshly-picked cotton
stored within. The teeth of the saw
tore the lint from the seed easily and
quickly, and young Whitney (he was
barely 13 at. the time), realized at
once that a machine working a num
ber of similar saws simultaneously
would revolutionize the cotton-growing
industry.
More than 16,000,000 pupils, or 20.04
per cent, of the entire population,
.were enrolled in the common schools
of the United States in the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1904. The total school
enrollment for the year, including pub
lic and private, elementary, secondary
and higher education, was 17,539,478
pupils, and to this there should bo an
Addition made for evening schools,
•business schools, private kindergar
tens, Indian schools, state schools for
defectives, orphans, etc., 648,440.
The report on crops, live stock, etc.,
In Manitoba in 1904, shows the total
gTain crop of that province to have
been equivalent to 90,055,113 Win
chester bushels, as compared with 85,-
308,649 bushels in the previous year,
an increase for 1904 of 4,946,461 bush
els. The area upon which this grain
crop was produced in 1904 is given at
'3,763,567 acres, as compared with 3,-
670,196 acres in 1903; in 1904 was
included for the first time a
small area of 2,471 acres devoted
to the culture of corn. The fig
ures are from the Manitoba depart
ment of agriculture.
The government of the United
States occasionally imports a wild)
beast for the zoo at Washington,
■which is under the Smithsonian insti
tution, but most of the animals out
there have been presented. Rut Uncle
Sam imports immense quantities of
bugs. One particular kind of bug im
ported by the United States from Aus
tralia has earned $5,000,000 or $6,000,-
000 every year for 15 years, and has
•never received any wages. Another
bug imported from Russia saved the
•farmers of Ohio and Indiana at least
($45,000,000 in the year 1900.
Effusion of blood to the brain and
disturbance of the digestive system
are no doubt the chief causes of sea
sickness; and certainly those of weak
digestion are particularly susceptible
to it. Then it is undeniable that most
people on board ship eat too much and
take too little exorcise. The overin
dulgence in the rich and sometimes
greasy dishes at the elaborate meals
on the big ocean liners —where even at
breakfast there are more courses than
most passengers are accustomed to at
dinner at home —is a bad preparation
fur a severe attack of mal-de-mer.
1 In Russia every woman of the peas
ant class marries, or pretends to mar
ry. If a girl conies to the decision
that, no one intends to ask her to mar
ry she leaves home and returns after
a time to announce that she is a wid
ow, that she went away to be mar
ried,. and that her husband has since
died. No embarrassing questions are
put to her, for it is, among the peas
ants, considered bad form to mention
a dead man to his widow. This cu
rious custom goes to slow in what
high regard the women o( Russia look
iipuu the institution of marriage.
THE INAUGURAL
CEREMONIES.
President Roosevelt and Vice Presi
dent Fairbanks Take the
Oaths ot Office.
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS IS BRIEF.
We Must Not Shirk the Duties We
Owe to Others and Ourselves —Our
Responsibility Is Heavy and We as a
Nation Must Not Fail.
Washington, March 4. —President
Roosevelt took the oath of office to-day
before a vast gathering of the people
lie has been elected to serve. The at
tendant scenes were not unusual. In
augurations from the timo the east
front of the capitol first became the
setting for the ceremony have been
much the same. Many of the central
figures have officiated in a like capac
ity ou other occasions when presi
dents have acceded to the highest of
fice in the gift of the American peo
ple. Chief Justice Fuller, in adminis
tering the oatli, repeated a solemn
function lie has performed four times
-—to-day his last. Yet, with all this
repetition, nothing was jaded and
everything appeared new.
The great crowd, assembled for the
crowning event of a day full of fea
tures, cannot be estimated even by
comparison. It. extended far beyond
the reach of the voice and was so
densely packed as to carry the stage
out of the sight of many. The capitol
plaza, resourceful in accommodating
the thousands eager to view the cere
mony, was completely filled. People
came by its numerous streets and ave
nues, which, like so many yawning,
ravenous maws, greedily swallowed
the throng until every coign of vant
age was occupied. The trees, barren
of foliage, carried their human bur
dens on limbs capable of bearing the
weight of man or boy, and as far away
as the terraces and marble steps of the
library of c< ngress thousands stood.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER,
Although the ceremony differed lit
tle from those thai have preceded it.in
the great sea of spectators probably
there was a larger number of repre
sentative Americans than any inaug
uration has brought to Washington.
The eastern states were rivalled in
point of attendance by reason of Pres
ident Roosevelt's great popularity in
the middle and far west. Delegates
were present from every one of the in
: sular possessions. Many of them had
never seen the capitol and, to a large
j number, the inauguration of a presi
| dent was wholly strange.
The movements of the gathering
I troops and organizations were not all
j the crowd had for its entertainment.
Directly in its front preparations were
In progress for the inauguration itself.
A monster stand in the form of an
open amphitheatre had been erected
on a line with the rotunda of the capi
tol.
The stand was built in the form of
a semi-circle inclining to a level plat -
form on which was placed a pavillion
for the president's use. The amphi
theatre accommodated nearly 7,000
persons.
At about 1 o'clock the official party
came through the main door. Cheers
were sent up from the multitude, all
eyes were directed that way and
strained to get the first glimpse of the
president.
The official entrance was dramatic.
All except those who were participating
in the ceremony were seated. When
the justices of the supreme court, with
the exception of Chief Justice Fuller,
emerged from between the pillars and
marched down the sloping aisle to
their station, they were greeted with
applause. Then came the members of
the diplomatic corps in their gorgeous
uniforms. After them came members
of the cabinet, senators and repre
sentatives in congress.
Taking as a signal the arrival of
Mrs. ltposevelt and a party of friends,
and a moment later of Vice President
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1905.
Fairbanks and liis escort, the applause
subsided to await the coming of the
man of the hour. Suddenly the crowd
on the stand began to cheer. This
was taken up by those immediately in
front of the platform. The military
presented arms, tho committee un
covered, and soon the great sea of peo
ple was waving hats and , flags and
shouting itself hoarse.
President Roosevelt was escorted by
Chief Justice Fuller. With measured
| tread in harmony with the dignified
| step of the chief justice, the president
i advanced instate down the aisle.
At a sign from Chief Justice Fuller
| the clerk of the supreme court, stepped
■ forward holding a Bible. A hush fell
| over the crowd. The president raised
; his right hand and the oath to support
the laws anil constitution of the lTni
ted States was taken amid deep
| silence. When this had been concluded
j there was practically no demonstra
1 tion and the president began bis in
! augural address, as follows:
My Fellow Citizens: No people on
earth have more cause to be thankful
than ours, and this is said reverently,
in no spirit of boastt'ulness in our own
| strength, but with gratitude to the Giver
i of Good Who lias blessed us with tho
! conditions which have enabled us to
achieve so large a measure of well being
and of happiness. To us as a people it
lias been granted to lay the foundation
A our national life in a new continent.
! We are the heirs of the ages, and yet
! we have had to pay few of the penalties
' which in old countries are exacted by
j the dead hand of a bygone civilization.
We have not been obliged to fight for
our existence against any alien rate;
I and yet our life has called for the vigor
j and effort without which the manlier
j and hardier virtues wither away. Un-
S der such conditions it would be our own
fault if we failed; and the success which
| we have had in the past, the success
j which we confidently believe the future
1 will bring, should cause in us no feel
| ing of vain glory, but rather a deep and
abiding realization of all which life has
! offered us; a full acknowledgement of
the responsibility which is ours; and a
! fixed determination to show that under
| a free government a mighty people can
! thrive best, alike as regards the things
j of the body and the things of the soul.
Much has been given to us, and much
j will rightfully be expected from us. We
; have duties to others and duties to our-
I selves; and we can shirk neither. We
i have become a great nation, forced by
| the fact 01 its greatness into relations
J with the other nations of the earth;
; and we must behave as beseems a peo
| pie with such responsibilities. Toward
| all other nations, large and small, our
! attitude must be one of cordial and sin
i cere friendship. We must show not only
i in our words, but in our deeds that we
; are earnestly desirous of securing their
| good will by acting toward them in a
I spirit of just and generous recognition
; of all their rights. But justice and gen
| prosily in a nation, as in an individual.
5 count most when shown not L/ the
weak, but by the strong. While ever
j careful to refrain from wronging others,
i we must be 110 less insistent that we are
! not wrongeil ourselves. We wish peace;
j but we wish the peace of justice, the
i peace of righteousness. We wish it be
j cause we think it is right, and not be
| cause we are afraid. No weak nation
i that acts manfully and justly should
; ever have cause to fear us. and 110 strong
I power should ever be able to single us
{ out as a subject for insolent aggression.
Our relations with the other powers
j of the world are important; but still
| more important are our relations among
| ourselves. Such growth in wealth, in
| population and in powers as this nation
| has seen during the century and a quar
ter of its national life is inevitably ac
| companied by a like growth in the prob
j lems which are ever before every na-
J tion that rises to greatness. Power in-
I variably means both responsibility and
j danger. Our forefathers faced certain
perils which we have outgrown. We
I now face other perils the very existence
I of which it was impossible that they
j should foresee. Modern life is both com
j plex and intense, and the tremendous
j changes wrought by the extraordinary
i industrial development of the last half
] century are felt in every fiber of our
j social and political being.
The conditions which have told for
! our marvelous material well-being,
' which have developed to a very high de
gree our energy, self-reliance and indi
j vidual initiative, have also brought the
i care and anxiety inseparable from the
accumulation of great wealth in indus
| trial centers. Upon the success of our
experiment much depends; not only as
j regards our own welfare, but as regards
| the welfare of mankind. If we fail, the
j cause of free self-government through-
I out the world will rock to its founda-
I tions; and therefore, our responsibility
j is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it
| is to-day, and to the generations yet
I unborn.
| Yet, after all, though the problems are
new, though the tasks set before 11s differ
from the tasks set before our fathers
who founded and preserved this repub
lic. the spirit in which these tasks must
be undertaken and these problems faced,
if our duty is to be well done, remains
essentially unchanged. We know that
self-government is difficult. We know
that 110 people needs such high traits
of character as that people which seeks
to govern its affairs aright through the
freely expressed will of the free men who
compose it. But we have faith that we
shall not prove false to the memories
of the men of the mighty past. They did
their work, they left us the splendid
heritage we now enjoy. We in our turn
have an assured confidence that we shall
be able to leave this heritage uuwasted
and enlarged to our children and out'
children's children. To do so we must
show, not merely in great crises, but in
the everyday affairs of life, the qualities
of practical intelligence, of courage, of
hardihood and endurance, and above alt
the power of devotion to a lofty ideal,
which made great the men who founded
this republic in the days of Washing
ton. which made great the men who pre
served this republic in the days of Abra
ham Lincoln.
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'■ .si r/ Ji\\i i I-, ■
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE.
When the president finished speak
ing he re-entered the capitol and as
he disappeared within the building a
signal was flashed to the navy yard and
the roar of 21 guns was begun in of
ficial salute to the president.
In the presence of as many of his
fellow «itizens as could be crowded
into the senate chamber, Charles War
ren Fairbanks was at noon inducted
into the otfice of vice president of the
United States. The ceremony was
quickly followed by the final adjourn
ment. oft lie senate, the beginning of a
special session, an address by the vice
president and the swearing into office
of almost a third of the membership
of the senate. All these official acts
took place in the chamber just before
the inauguration of the president and
were in reality, while themselves of
great import, the prelude of the more
important event.
VICE PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS.
The installation of the new vice
president was simple anil brief. It
consisted of a promise, solemnly made
with uplifted hand and bowed head, to
perform the duties of the office and to
support and defend the constitution of
the United States. This was the oath
of office, and it was administered by
Senator Frye as president pro tempore
of the senate. The two officials stood
confronting each other on the elevated
platform on which rests the desk of
the presiding officer of the senate,
practically on the same spot on which
the incoming vice presidents for
tho past 50 years have stood, and
where a majority of Americans have
decreed that Mr. Fairbanks shall pre
side for tho four years to come.
Plain and democratic though the
ceremony was, it attracted to the sen
ate a gathering of notable people,
many of them of such importance that,
in accordance with time honored cus
tom, their appearance was heralded
with pomp and platitude sufficient to
atone for the simplicity of the official
acts of the occasion, if not to quite
overshadow them. These guests in
cluded the foremost representtaives of
the official life of the capital city, for
eign and domestic, civil and military,
and also many other persons of promi
nence from all parts of the country.
On the senate floor, with his cabi
net, were the president of the United
States, himself about to be inaugurat
ed; the diplomatic corps, the supreme
court of the United States, the house
of representatives, the admiral of the
navy, the lieutenant general of the
army, the governors of states, and
others distinguished by reason of posi
tion or achievement. These sufficed
to tax the capacity of that part of the
hall, and thy were splendidly supple
mented by the attendance in the gal
leries.
A Very Fatal Explosion.
Pikeville, I<y., March 4.—At the rail
road camp of A. H. Calligan, a Chesa
peake H. Ohio railway contractor at the
month of Greasy creek, ten miles south
of here, four workmen were instantly
killed, two were fatally hurt and four
dangerously injured by an explosion
yesterday. The men were heating
dynamite in powder cans when the ex
plosion occurred.
Retracted His Story.
Washington, Pa., March 4.—Adolph
J. Bloch, who confessed to having mur
dered Mrs. Kate Falzinger at Allen
town, Pa., on August 0, 1903, for which
crime his brother, Eugene Bloch, was
hanged there this week, took it all
back yesterday. He said he had never
been in Allentown and the story was
intended as a joke.
| THE BEEF BARONS' PROFITS
An Official Report States that the "Big
Six" Have not Been Making Any
Too Much Money.
Washington, March <l.—President
! Roosevelt on Friday transmitted to
i congress the report of the commission
| er of corporations upon the beef indus
; try submitted in compliance with the
, resolution of the house of represent
atives adopted March 7, 1904.
The report is to the effect that six
packing companies—Armour & Co.,
Swift & Co., Morris & Co., the Nation
al Packing Co., the Schwarzschild &
Sulzberger Co., and the Cudaliy Pack
ing Co. slaughtered in the year 1903
about 45 per cent, of the total indicat
ed slaughter in the United States; that
the average net profit in 1903 for three
of the companies was 99 cents per
head; that the year 1902, instead of be
ing one of exorbitant profits was less
profitable than usual, and that during
; the months when prices of beef were
! the highest, some of the leading pack
ers were actually losing money on
i every head slaughtered.
The changes in the margin between
I prices of cattle and beef are in them
selves no indications whatever of the
j change in profits, says the report,
j Prices and conditions for the years
• 1902, 1903 and 19<)4 are reviewed, and
1 the conclusions are stated that the
! six companies especially discussed are
j apparently not overcapitalized; that
■ the percentage of profit on the gross
j volume of business is comparatively
1 small, and that during the years 1902,
| 1903 and 1904 Swift & Co.'s profits
l have not exceeded 2 per cent, of the
| total sales: Cudahy & Co.'s is stated at
j 1.8 per cent, for 1904 and 2.3 per cent,
for 1902.
With reference to private car lines
j in the packing industry it is stated
j that the profit is a very liberal one, a
I net return of from 14 to IT per cent.
| being indicated, but it is added that,
1 reckoning on the basis of dressed
| beef transported, the profit would add
but little to the cost of beef to the
| consumer. The profit of one concern.
! Cudahy Packing Co., on its investment
j in cars was as high as 22 per cent, in
1 one year.
BUSINESS BULLETIN.
Reports are Somewhat Conflicting, but
the Outlook Is Considered Favor
able.
New York, March 4. —R. G. Dun &
! Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
Trade reports are still somewhat
! conflicting, but on the whole improve
j merit has followed more settled weath
! er, and the outlook is considered
j favorable, even in sections where
I current business is irregular. Mer
j cantile collections are not as prompt
at the east as elsewhere, but the lia
bilities of commercial failures in Feb
ruary were much smaller than a year
ago. Traffic blockades have been
lifted, restoring a normal distribution
of merchandise, and railway earnings
in February were only 5.1 per cent,
smaller than last, year, despite the se
vere weather at the start. Little idle
machinery is noticed in the iron and
steel industry, textile mills are in
creasingly active, and New England
shoe shops are shipping more freely
than a year ago.
Commercial failures this week in the
United States are 245, against 23G the
corresponding week last year. Fail
ures in Canada number 35, against 27
last year.
A Jail Delivery.
Madisonville, Ky., March 4. —Three
alleged murderers and two alleged
thieves were freed in a jail delivery
here Friday. The delivery was made
by some one from the outside cutting
iron bars from a rear window of the
jail.
Congressional Proceedings.
Washington, March 4. —The last
day's session of the house before the
final adjournment of congress found
that body almost through with its
work of disposing of conference re
ports on the great supply measures of
ihe government. All the appropria
tion bills having been passed, the ses
sion ot the senate was given up large
ly to general legislation and to con
ference reports on appropriation bills.
Final reports were presented on the
naval, post office, Indian and sundry
civil bills, leaving only the river and
harbor and the general deficiency bills
to be considered in their final stages.
DEATHS IN A
COLLISION,
A Crasn of Special Trains on the
Cleveland &, Pittsburg Road
Near Pittsburg,
NINE PERSONS WERE KILLED,
.
Many Persons Were Injured—The
Train Carried Cleveland Militiamen
and the Tippecanoe Club, Who Were
en Route to Washington.
Pittsburg, March 4.—ln a rear end
collision last, night between two spe
cial passenger trains from Cleveland
on the Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad,
en route to Washington, eight men and
; a boy were killed and 20 others
injured.
The accident happened at Clifton
Station, eight miles west of here, and
was caused by the first special stop
ping for a hot tox and the second fol
lowed so closely that the flagman had
not time togo back far enough to pre
vent the collision.
Tho first train carried a battalion
of the Ohio Engineers. It was made
| up of six coaches and a baggage car.
| The second train, with the same num.
I her of cars, carried the Tippecanoe
j club, of Cleveland, with a band and 25
j or 30 women.
When the crash came the passen
| gers in the rear car of the first train
j were the principal sufferers and all of
j the fatalities were in that car. The
j wrelcage took fire from the engine
j and the entire first train and three
| cars of the second were burned.
Capt. Charles E. Pope was the only
| officer of the Engineers to escape in
j jury and he will be in command of the
! battalion, which will return to Cleve
'' land. The Tippecanoe club will con
| tinue their journey to Washington.
When roll call was made of the Tip
j pacanoe club only two men were rniss
i ing. They may be among the injured
! who were taken to the hospital at
Rochester, Pa.
The engineer of the second train
says the block signal showed a green
light and his train went ahead at the
rate of about 45 or 50 miles an hour.
When the impact came the engine of
the second train plowed through the
rear Pullman in which the officers
were and half way into the tourist car
I just ahead of it.
At 1 o'clock this morning six bodies
had been identified. They are:
Capt. William Hendrick, battalion
surgeon and a prominent Cleveland
physician.
Lieut. Donaldson C. Schofleld, of
Company I), a Cleveland architect.
Corporal James Kehoe, Company C.
Private H. R. Held, Company C.
James Gray, negro cook, Battery R
Frank Pinney, aged 10 years, son of
Lieut. O. C. Pinney. He was the only
boy on the train.
Two men died while being taken to
j the Beaver county hospital at Roches
| ter. Their bodies will be brought to
| this city for identification.
] Unidentified man in uniform of
; Pullman conductor. Had cards in
j pockets bearing name C. Ilealt.
The injured are all from Cleveland.
They are:
George Reilly, will likely die;,
George Fannan, C. Orbitzer, Charles:
Sturgis, Frank Johnston, George Ger
browski, Sergeant William Mclrish,
George McCabe (colored), Lieut. F.
Vanderberg, P. C. Davis, Capt. Geck
ler, Adjt. Wall. i" McArron, Lieut. O. C.
Pinney, skull fractured, may die;
Floyd Palmer, condition serious;
Lieut. Clifford B. Haskins, of the
Naval Reserves; Hugh Bidmann, gen
eral agent of tho Connecticut Life In
surance Co.; Lieut. Eugene Steam,
Lieut. E. W. Briggs, of the Naval Re
serves. . t
Stanford Home Under Surveillance.
San Francisco, 51 arch 4. —Although
every effort is being made to find a
motive for the poisoning of Mrs. Jane
L. Stanford and to fix the guilt, no ar
rests have yet been made. The de
tectives are keeping their eyes on
Albert Beverly, tho former butler, and
Elizabeth Richmond, the former maid
of Mrs. Stanford, and upon the six or
eight employes, mostly Chinese, in the
Stanford house in this city, which no
ono is permitted to enter or leave
without permission of the authorities.
Hundreds Were Killed in Riots.
Berlin. March 4. —The Lokal An
zeiger's Baku correspondent gives the
number killed in the riots between
Armenians and Tartars as SOO. The
belligerents have now buried the
hatchet, but a general exodus from the
city is in progress I .-cause it is feared
the troubles will be resumed to-day
when demonstraions are announced in
celebration of the liberation of the
serfs.
Killed His Wife and Himself.
Tulss.. I. T., March 4.—Will I. Neet,.
iy:ed 25, of this city, shot and killed,
his wife and then committed suicide'
yesterday. At the inquest it develop
ed that the tragedy had been planned,,
as both had written letters directing
what, disposition should be made of
their personal effects. They were
married last Sunday in Longton, Kan.
Congressman Hermann Is Indicted.
Washington, March 4. —Binger Her
mann. member of congress from Ore
gon and former commissioner of tho
general land office, was indicted Fri
day by the federal grand jury here on
the charge of destroying public rec
ords. The charge is that: Mr. Her
mann, just previous to his resignation
as commissioner of the general land
office, which was on February 1,
1903. destroyed S5 letter press copy
books containing copies of official com
munications written by him and re
lating to the business of that bureau,
lie gave bail in $5,000.